Biography

Dr. Daisuke Minakata obtained B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Kyoto
University, Japan in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He obtained Ph.D. in environmental
engineering from Georgia Tech in 2010. Dr.Minakata worked as a research engineer
at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable System at Georgia Tech for 3 and half
years. Then, Dr. Minakata became an assistant professor in the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Tech in 2013.

Dr. Minakata's research interests include development of computational tools for
various water and wastewater treatment technologies, innovative water treatment technologies,
and sustainable energy harvesting technologies. His teaching interests include principles
of physical chemical water and wastewater treatment processes, environmental process
and design, computational environmental engineering. Dr. Minakata has published numerous
peer-reviewed paper in Environmental Science and Technology, Water Research, International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Applied Catalysis, etc.